"Andy Warhol: Revelation." Jonathan Dorado / Brooklyn Museum Andy Warhol Foundation allegedly had an affair, the works also call to mind “biblical juxtapositions of good women and not good women,” Hermo added.
The works, Hermo said, depict “intense moments of real women’s pain, and kind of acknowledging the intensity of how American culture sort of consumes that and loves it.” In depicting Kennedy and Monroe, with whom J.F.K. Kennedy’s funeral - and, made approximately 14 years later, the actress Marilyn Monroe, who died of a drug overdose in 1962 and whose face Warhol obscured and rearranged using a black palette. It’s just too strange a thing, mothers and babies and breastfeeding” - a viewpoint the curators likely attribute to “the stigma around breastfeeding” that dominated at the time.īut Warhol relied on women as subjects throughout his career: “Revelation” features his 1964 silkscreen prints of Jackie Kennedy - veiled and in mourning at John F.
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Warhol eventually dropped the project, stating: “I just know this series is going to be a problem. Warhol’s closeness with his mother - and the reverence for their religion that she encouraged in him - likely inspired his interest in depicting the bond between mothers and their children, according to the curators of “Revelation.” In the early 1980s, Warhol and photographer Christopher Makos captured images of breastfeeding models and their babies - seven of which are featured in the exhibit - for a project Warhol planned to call “Modern Madonnas,” inspired by religious depictions of the Virgin Mary holding the Christ child. Still, “she certainly accepted Warhol as he was,” Diaz added, despite the Catholic Church’s enduring stance against homosexuality. During those years living together, Julia “was always hoping that he would meet the right girl,” Diaz said, adding that she instead met Warhol’s boyfriends. Julia lived with her son for nearly two decades in New York, from 1952 until 1971, when she moved back to Pittsburgh in poor health (she died the following year). While Warhol’s religiosity may have grown inconsistent over his lifetime, his closeness with his mother endured. "Andy Warhol: Revelation." Jonathan Dorado / Brooklyn Museum As an adult, Warhol practiced his faith “on his terms,” which were less stringent than those of his mother, according to Diaz: “There’s not a lot of evidence of which churches or how often he went in the '50s, but we know through his life he popped into church,” he said. She also encouraged her son’s budding creativity by purchasing him art supplies. Warhol’s mother, Julia Zavacky Warhola, a Slovakian immigrant, cultivated her son's religious roots during his childhood in Pittsburgh in the 1930s, when she brought him to four church services every weekend, “Revelation” notes. 19, where it will be on view through next June. The exhibit debuted at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh in 2019, and then went to the Speed Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, last year before arriving at the Brooklyn Museum on Nov. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, who organized the exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum with José Carlos Diaz, chief curator at the Andy Warhol Museum. And through his portraits of celebrities and paintings of objects that shaped American consumerist culture in the 1960s - including Campbell’s soup cans and Coke bottles - Warhol “very presciently tapped into kind of an undercurrent of society that you could call worship,” said Carmen Hermo, associate curator at the Brooklyn Museum’s Elizabeth A. Warhol, who was a gay, adapted - and, oftentimes, subverted - religious themes in his artwork, the exhibit argues, in part by questioning traditional depictions of women and mothers and by using male bodies as a way to explore queer desire. A new exhibit on view at the Brooklyn Museum, “ Andy Warhol: Revelation,” aims to correct this historical oversight, by featuring more than 100 objects that show how Warhol’s relationship to religion served as both a muse and a methodology for his art, and a guiding force in his personal life.
"Andy Warhol: Revelation." Jonathan Dorado / Brooklyn Museumīut exhibitions on Warhol’s work have not examined the role that his faith played in both his life and art - until now.
And in his diaries, Warhol documented details of his trips to church and his trip to the Vatican in 1980, where he met Pope John Paul II. Indeed, religious iconography - including crosses and depictions of Jesus and Mary - recur throughout Warhol’s body of work.
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